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‘Military report on the British Protectorate of Aden and the Amir of Dala’s territories, with special reports on certain other tribes and adjoining border districts’ [199v] (403/490)
The record is made up of 1 volume (243 folios). It was created in 1905-1908. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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299
of J. Sabar. A good water-supply brought in pipes from J. Sabar. A fertile country
but reported very feverish. No defences.
Distance Table.
Intermediate.
Total.
Measured on
Mavia
Wall Haj Haroun ...
... 3 miles
... 3
map.
Selat Sudan
... 4 „
... 7
6
Huzum
... 6*„
... I 3 i
• ••
’Ariba ...
... 1 2
... *44
Dar as Sakin ...
... 5 >»
... i 9 i
... 16
Ibb-Taiz road
... 4 „
... 23
Kubbet Hauban ...
... 1 „
.. 24
Mudarraj ...
... 4 »
... 28
Taiz
... 1 >,
... 29
... 27
N.B .—Intermediate distances must be taken as approximate, as the journey was made rapidly under circutn*
stances when no notes could be taken.
Route No. VI.
From SHEKH OTHMAN to RAHDA in BADU (Turkish District). (With notes
on stage Rahda to Taiz.)
Authority and date .—Major Crawford and Captain Redl, Feb. 1904.
Stage 1 to 3 as for Route No. 1.
Stage 4. (Nobat Dukem to Dar Akkan) as per Route No. 4. Stage 4.
ii/u'towe.— (Stages 5 and 6). 72 miles in 6 stages to Rahda. Stages prtrtiallv tra
versed by Column of 200 Infantry and section mountain guns in February 1904. Stage
6. by native surveyor w'ith Turkish escort. No difficult places passed. Route mainly
in river bed and commanded by adjacent heights almost throughout. No difficulty
to transport, but heavy marching for infantry. Boundary Commission camped right bank,
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Natid, for two weeks near Bir Adlan and at Karrash for night Supporting
Column camped right bank Natid opposite Hawemi. Water good and abundant,
stage 5 and (by native report) at stage 6.
No.
of
stage.
Name of stage.
Distance,
Remarks.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
• 5
Hawemi.
13
miles.
59
miles
The bed of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Akkan is ascended
in a north-west direction. No difficulty
to transport but heavy going for troops.
Except in flood-time the only water is an
occasional pool of brackish water. At miles, the track from Musemir joins the
left bank just above the junction of the dry ravine W. Mahsos or Bariyid. A few
salt pools are passed. J. al Karsh, a bare and rugged mountain (3,717 ft.) rises on
the left bank (right hand). Two miles beyond the junction of the Musemir road, the
dr> Selat Dema and Abagad join the right and left bank respectively. Two miles
further on yet, a considerable stream of running water is passed. The water is brackish
and unpalatable, but a large herd of goats was observed watering. A short half mile
above this stream, the right bank of the Akkan is joined by the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hidaba, a broad
dry water-course from the west-south-west. Two routes can now be followed to the
Karrash springs, 3f miles further on.
(a) Continue up the Akkan (above the junction with the W. Hidaba known as
the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
NATID) for miles, and then strike up a side water-course to the left.
{b) Quit the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
bed by a path just on the Hidaba side of the angle between
the two Wadis, and keeping a conspicuous bare hill on the left hand, proceed in a
westerly direction,
The latter is a little longer, but is easier marching for infantry. The
village of Hidaba will be visible from it to the south-west. A shallow ravine in
crossed before arriving at Karrash. The springs of Karrash are passed just to the
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The volume, a military report compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the QMG’s [Quartermaster General’s] Department and published at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, is comprised of several sections, as follows:
- section I, a Military Report on the British Protectorate of Aden , prepared by Captain Ernest Arthur Frederick Redl (ff 10-52), and including chapters on: geography; ethnography, with details of the different tribes living in the Protectorate; climate and health; natural resources; harbours and anchorages; communications; fortresses; history; native inhabitants’ administration; the military organisation and strength of native inhabitants; and political relations. A handwritten note is included in the report (f 49), and concerns the entitlements of Protectorate Chiefs to salutes, and issue to them of arms and ammunition, 1906;
- section II, a Report on the Amir of Dala’s [Ad Dali’] Territories , prepared by Major J K Tod (ff 54-118), and including chapters on: geography; ethnography; climate and health; resources; communications; forts and fortified posts; history; administration, and military. Following the report is a gazetteer providing greater detail of the sixteen districts in Dala, including: topography; ruling families and allegiances; villages and population figures, including numbers of fighting men; water resources; agricultural and industrial activities;
- section III, Reports on Haushabi, Subehi and Yafa’i Tribes, Turkish and North Western Border Districts and the River Tiban , divided into chapters, all prepared by Captain Redl unless otherwise specified, on: 1) the Haushabi [al-Ḥawshabī] (ff 120-130), and including a handwritten note, dated December 1905 (f 122), noting that the Sultan of Haushabi has agreed to abide by an agreement of 1895; 2) the Subehi tribes near the Turkish border (ff 130-144); 3) the districts of Turkish Yemen adjoining the British boundary (ff 144-165); 4) Tribes of the north-west frontier Region of British India bordering Afghanistan. (ff 165-172); 5) a memorandum of the Yafa’i [Yāfi‘] tribe, prepared by Captain Gonville W Warneford (ff 172-183); 6) The Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Tiban (ff 184-185);
- section IV, Routes (ff 186-228), detailing numerous routes between key points in Aden province, noting: distances; stages; nature of the terrain and its suitability for different modes of transport; available resources en route; territories crossed. A (duplicated) confidential memorandum, written by Captain G A F Sanders of the Aden Brigade, dated 24 August 1905, containing additional information for stages 5 and 6 of route 5 has been added to the volume (ff 195-198);
- appendix I, a brief statement on inland trade between Aden and the Arabian mainland, 1903 (ff 229-230).
The volume is extensively illustrated throughout with fold-out maps, plans and illustrations, prepared by the Intelligence Branch (I.B.) and all of which describe the topography and terrain of the region. There are three maps included in a pocket at the end of the volume: a map of the Aden Protectorate (f 242); a view from the ruined village of Lakmat Magharam about one-and-a-half miles west of Sanah [Ṣanʻā'] (f 240); and a road sketch from Khalla through Awabil [‘Awābil] to the upper plateau of the Rubiatein [Ar Rubay‘atayn] tribe (f 241).
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- 1 volume (243 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in four sections (numbered I-IV), with a single appendix. Sections I-III are arranged in numbered chapters while section IV is arranged in twenty-three numbered routes. The volume’s contents page (ff 6-8) lists the sections and their respective chapters/routes, with page numbers referring to the volume’s printed pagination system. A general index (ff 231-238) lists placenames referred to in the volume in alphabetically ascending order, also with page numbers referring to the volume’s printed pagination.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 243; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:11v, 13r:14v, 16r:28v, 30r:30v, 32r:35r, 36r:36v, 38r:56v, 58r:67r, 68r:69r, 70r:79r, 80r:85v, 87r:88r, 89r:89v, 91r:95v, 97r:98v, 100r:101r, 102r:105v, 107r:108r, 109r:113r, 114r:116v, 118r:120v, 122r:124v, 126r:126v, 128r:130v, 132r:132v, 134r:135r, 136r:136v, 138r:157v, 159r:161v, 163r:163v, 165r:165v, 167r:182v, 184r:188v, 190r:190v, 192r:239v, back-i
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